An After-Death Communication, or ADC, is a spiritual experience that occurs when someone is contacted directly and spontaneously by a family member or friend who has died. An ADC is a direct experience because no third parties such as psychics, mediums, therapists, rituals, or devices are involved.  And an ADC is a spontaneous event because our deceased loved ones always choose when, where, and how they will contact us.

You Must Call for Help NOW, or You’re Going Home!  “I was working at home in August of 1997, thrilled to be pregnant after years of infertility and two ectopic pregnancies. I was trying to focus on work but had incredible heartburn as well as the strangest sense of impending doom. I suddenly felt a searing pain in my abdomen. I passed out on my bathroom floor, not knowing the fundus at the top of my uterus had ruptured. Because the fundus is an aorta, I was about to lose an estimated three-quarters of my blood supply.

Love from Heaven – My 6 NDEs, the Gifts I Received and the Wisdom I Learned.  In this heartfelt spiritual presentation, Tamara briefly highlights her six near-death experiences and various spiritual states she encountered. She talks about seeing the humanoid light beings, Archangel Uriel, angels, guides, going through a tunnel, and seeing Jesus. Then the next year, Tamara died again, spent three days with Christ in Heaven while her body lay in an induced coma from where her lungs collapsed from pneumonia.

Living with My Spirit Guides. Life comes with many different experiences, some on this earth and others outside of this universe. Greg Thompson will narrate his life and the meaningful relationships he has with his messengers. The audience will see a different perspective of life through Greg’s daily spiritual encounters with his guardian angels. He will speak about his experiences that started when he first met one of his guides at the age of four.

In 1994, the DSM-IV included the new diagnostic category of “Religious or Spiritual Problem” (V code 62.89) in the V code section of “Other Conditions That May Be a Focus of Clinical Attention” which are by definition not mental disorders: “This category can be used when the focus of clinical attention is a religious or spiritual problem.  Examples include distressing experiences that involve loss or questioning of faith, problems associated with conversion to a new faith, or questioning of other spiritual values which may not necessarily be related to an organized church or religious institution.”

During a rare NDE life preview in 1970, Kimberly was shown three images of her future if she chose to live instead of entering a portal to Heaven that shone before her — a place where “mountains met water,” certainly not in the Midwest USA where her lifeless body lay; a gallery of people with whom she would significantly interact, all strangers at that time; and a life of service. The life of service is what she chose, so she left Kansas with her hamster Toto, traversing the country before landing permanently in Seattle, known then as now as The Emerald City.

Dr. Sackett will describe a childhood Near-Death Experience, a Shared-Death Experience with his wife of 25 years, and discuss more fully a Spiritual Emergency experience from 1970 that has taken many years to begin to understand, and finally to integrate into his personal and spiritual life. There were many things about the 1970 STE that he didn’t understand at the time, including why he lost touch with the meaning of his human life, the nature of the transcendent part of the experience, and whether he had lost his sanity.

It is time for those of us with personal experience of Spiritually Transformative Experiences (STEs) to step up and out into leadership. The world is in the midst of a painful awakening through crisis, a collective STE, and we have a huge amount to offer right now.  How do we step fully into our potential following a profound STE? How do we successfully navigate the Return part of the Hero’s Journey? How do we bring back the ‘elixir’ to share with the wider community? These are the questions Catherine grappled with following her crisis of awakening in 2003, which left her temporarily in a wheelchair.